Young Adult Revisited

Jonathon is bad news. We know this because that's how Annie, our heroine, introduces him at the very beginning. She just moved to town with her parents and her little brother Caleb, and she decides to take a trip up to the falls in town, which the real estate agent told them was one of the best in the country. When she sees a man getting ready to jump, she drops her bike and runs to help him. No worries though. It's actually just Jonathon. We know he's super cute because she describes him as looking like Luke Perry with James Dean hair. Mm, James Dean. After saying he was meeting someone up there, he does a little flirting with Annie before walking her back to her bike. Turns out that someone slashed her tires but there is no one else around. While helping her back to town, Jonathon runs into his friend Ruby. Ruby spends far too much time rubbing on him, flirting with him, and ignoring Annie, but that doesn't stop him from inviting her to a party later that w...

Grady and Emily move to Florida after their parents accept a new research assignment for the university. Their dad brought in some weird deer from South America and want to see how they fare in the US. They plan to put tracking devices on them and follow their movements. Grady doesn't really mind the move, but Emily hates that she has to leave all her friends behind and miss out on her last year in high school. In the hopes of having some fun, they take a walk in the swamp behind their house. They stumble across a random cabin in the woods and some man who mumbles to himself and seems a little crazy. When he chases them away from the cabin, they run home and tell their parents what happened. In a fit of Wakefield-like parenting, their dad tells them not to worry. He heard in town about a crazy hermit living in the swamp but it's not a big deal. Not long after moving there, Grady meets this kid Will. They take some walks and explore the swamps, and he eventually ...

Bradley is, without a doubt, the most annoying character who ever appeared in one of these books. Our main character, Matt, is the star of the school swimming team and the biggest science nerd in school. Bradley is his next door neighbor. Though he doesn't like him and doesn't want him around, his mom keeps letting him in their house. The steals Matt's favorite clothes, eats his breakfast, and is just an asshat. When he tells him about his idea to build a computerized birdhouse, Bradley steals the plans and shows them to their teacher as his idea for the science fair. One day on the way to school, Bradley picks up a rock and throws it at the stop sign. It bounces off and smashes into the windshield of their principal. Bradley runs off and Matt takes the blame, with the principal warning him that he needs to act right with the big swim meet coming up. At school, Bradley cheats off him on a test. When their teacher catches them, he claims that Matt did it without...